Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks

An Illinois man who was caught hauling nearly $80,000 worth of fake North Face jackets along Interstate 78 pleaded no contest Monday to a charge of trademark counterfeiting. Ho Young Choi, 37, was pulled over Oct. 23 by state police in Lower Saucon Township as he drove west from New York City, according to court records. Stacked to the roof of his minivan were cardboard boxes containing 480 of the counterfeit jackets, police said. Choi, of Des Plaines, Ill., told police that he bought the jackets for $14 apiece and was going to sell them to stores in Columbus, Ohio, and Chicago, records state. Each bore a price tag label of $165, police said. By pleading no contest, Choi admitted...

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